11 Bizarre, Hilarious Explanations Flat-Earthers Subscribe To

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When you think about a time when the answer to the question “Is the Earth really round?” could possibly be in dispute, you probably think back to the Middle Ages. If you were to tell someone back then that the Earth is shaped less like a plank of wood and more like an orange, they’d probably say something like, “Get to Church you blathering, godless heathen!” or “The Earth has been, and always will be, flat!”

The same year that one can get on a magic screen, visit a store that doesn’t even physically exist, click the image of a telescope, have said telescope delivered within an hour, and use that telescope to look at morespherical planets in the sky, just like ours.

But, alas, there are some – like those folks in the Middle Ages – that just aren’t buying it.

So, why do people believe in a flat Earth? Click through to find out how shallow the rabbit hole is, and why “flat-Earthers” don’t believe you’ll end up on the other side.

A ‘Round Earth’ Is a Conspiracy to Debunk Religion

Although there’s a colossal amount of evidence that most religions and religious documents never mentioned the actual shape of the Earth to begin with, some flat-Earthers believe that NASA and other conspirators enforced their “round Earth” propaganda as a way of stifling religious beliefs.

“But if the Earth is just one of billions of planets revolving around billions of stars in billions of galaxies, then the ideas of God, creation, and a specific purpose for Earth and human existence become highly implausible.”